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�Brought up in Fryeburg, and his brother, Alonzo Lewis, spent about all his time studying Fryeburg history. You may enjoy looking over the clipping though I think it adds nothing to what you said except the statements regarding Elijah Russell and you may have known about his shortcomings. Also I notice Mr. Lewis' interprets "the Chief Powow" to mean the chief conjurer, and I wondered if that were your interpretation or if you accept Powow as a proper name. And if a proper name where does Wahwas[?] come in? Some people seem to think he was sthe Chief but I do not know their authority. Perhaps you will be telling us all that when you write the complete story of the fight. I was interested to learn about Scaticooks[?]. there were Indians at Cambridge in 1775 whom I thought Washington might have sent with Arnold but the indications are that they came from New York and how New York Indians could possibly be of any help in an expedition up the Kennebec I couldn't see. I was interested also in your account of the Indian tribes. Some writers seem to think that all your[crossed out] Maine Indians were Abenakis but from your article I understand that the Abenakis were the hunting nomads who lived too far north to get their living by agriculture. They would include, roughly, the Indians of the three[?] large river valleys of central Maine,-- the Androscoggin, Kennebec, and Penobscot,--but not the Larrentines[?], who lived for a time on the Penobscot; and[crossed out] not, of course, the scattered settlements of Mohicans; and not the Sokokis (who might be of Mohican origin). The Pigwackets[?], as I understand were a branch of the Sokokis, though I have seen mention of them as if they were a separate tribe. The relations between the Pigwacket[?] at Fryeburg and the Androscoggin Indians at Bethel appears to have been rather close. The trail led through Lovell, known as the Scoggite[?] trail, and where the trail left Lake Kezar and struck across Sebattus[?] Mountain there's a place known to the